The domination of big business is a reality all too familiar to the 30,000 small businesses nationwide that make up the Main Street Alliance. With monopolies growing ever larger, small businesses are being squeezed by both anticompetitive practices and an increasingly unequal economy. None of this is natural. It’s a result of policy choices favoring giant companies over Main Street.

We need a Main Street economy that instead of draining resources from small businesses and communities levels the playing field. That means fair taxation to fund a healthy work force and thriving communities. It means economic development that revitalizes local economies and promotes racial equity.

It means creating quality jobs that boost our economy. And it means supporting immigrant entrepreneurs and other immigrants and stopping the division promoted by President Trump and other politicians.

This election season, Main Street businesses will make sure that politicians are promoting good economic policies, not just singing our praises.